Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for his policies of analysis by Citizen's Advice that on average a single adult claiming the basic rate of universal credit will be spend 33 per cent of their standard allowance on energy bills following the estimated energy price cap increase; and if her Department will take steps to assist those claimants.

The Government is providing £12 billion of support to ease cost of living pressures, with help targeted at working families, low-income households and the most vulnerable. A further £9 billion has been announced to protect against the impact of rising global energy prices.